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My “Flask” Collection: A look back on handhelds of the last 2 decade 2
The five pieces of hardware in my possession and on this list, with the blue Vita standing in for the PSP I sold back in 2009. (Let’s “drink” to Nintendo’s 7th anniversary. May it have a full 8th year all to itself before its successor crawls into
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Pacific Rim Presents 3 Cancelations of and 1 Countdown to the Apocalypse 0
Or the weird Lunar New Year vibe I got from Christmas stories in 4 Japanese video games. 2024 marks the fifth year since I picked up video game criticism as a hobby, things feel different between now and then. It all started at my first year in grad
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Welcome to the pub, those came along when I was 14 0
As the year 2023 gives away to 2024, yours truly cannot help but think about the bygone time that was 2004. It was the year when I had finally learnt of the anatomy that allows us homo sapiens to fuck face to face after all. It can also be seen as
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Vintage ranking: 10 “Old” Games Played and Reviewed in 2023 0
I chose to engage tech through tablets only in 2023. The Surface Pro I am typing on is technically a tablet. My phone is functionally a much smaller tablet, with phone calls nowadays not made with its inherent function but with some app. I consider
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Batman Arkham City Presents the Short of It in 2023 0
Rule laying: Sixty-buck ceiling and thousand words bottom-line Bethesda open world epic, Mortal Kombat reboot, Assassin’s Creed going back to its “root”, MGS re-release, and of course, Call of Duty Modern Warfare Three. Alas, 2023! While here in miHo
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The First quarter of 2023: Reminders of a decade or two ago 0
Introduction I’ve toyed with the idea of doing “end of the quarter” list before, yet nothing materialized until now. Four months after calling back to the 1990s in my end of 2022 list, the first 3 months of 2023 offered reminders of relatively recent
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May it remain history 0
Ranking “Hideo Kojima’s” Metal Gear Solid games based on years old memory 2023 marks the 25th anniversary of Metal Gear Solid and it feels weird in more than one way. It’s an occasion that much loathed Konami Digital seemingly would milk to death a
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All Keighleys’ Companies 0
It’s that time of the year again. Christmas plus solar New Year approaching and awards for video games being handed out starting with the Keighleys. Between 2017 and 2018, all the video game podcasts I listened to would discuss the meaning of this ca
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2022:Childhood Callbacks at Eras’ Ends 0
Late November is bit early to some as end of the year, but not to me. So I am putting up my list at that time. Besides, it feels good to say that yours truly beat the Keighley’s to it by more than 2 two full weeks in 2022, even though it’s not a race
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The short of it and those still hang in 2021 1
2021 turns out to be an interesting year when Game of the Year awards say more about the award giver than the awarded: Game Award went to It Takes Two, as Keighley and his crew continue their quest for video game auteurs; IGN being more of an enterta
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A New Look Back At My Games of the Years in the 2010s 0
Back in December, 2019, I made my decade list for the 2010s. So many mistakes were made on that list, I decided to delete it and make the following list instead. I didn’t stick to the “one game per year” rule I made for myself back then, this list w
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A Personal Ranking of Naughty Dog’s Uncharted Campaigns 2
Early December, 2020, I played through all 5 Uncharted games made by Naughty Dog, just in time to “celebrate” the developer’s big wins in the Game Awards. I tried to write separate reviews for the 5 games, but the binge had blended them together in
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10 different escapes from a disastrous year : A Giantbomb user’s top game list of 2020 0
2020 is a year that makes me long for different ways to escape. There are two different journeys through the world after death, whether it’s a godly prince’s war path or a mortal girl’s peaceful and helpful way. There are two different rebuild narrat
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Robert Jiang’s Top 10 Games of 2019 0
2019 has been a weird year to me. The high and low have come fast and loose throughout the year, both in term of video game and other aspects of life. Look at this list, gaming is more like intense bursts in certain months than a constant stream th
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Robert Jiang’s Top 10 Games of 2018 0
(To the 2 decade I spent learning English as my second language, the one I spent learning Japanese as my third and the more to come.) 2018, my year of S words: Switch, Steam, Sequels, Side Scrollers, sadness, Swery and so on. Unfortunately, not as mu
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Robert Jiang's 10 Games of 2016 0
Sorry, Americans. I wouldn’t know about your post election depression but I felt like shit after my third wisdom tooth pulled out that day anyway. At least the games are good this year, heh. P.S. It feels good to play PC games through other softwar
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Robert Jiang’s Top 5 Games of 2012 0
Graduation from college and unemployment, what a time to play. Yet another year with only disc releases, see you two in a year, Dust: An Elysian Tail and Mark of Ninja, and see you in 3, Journey.
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Robert Jiang’s Top 10 Games of 2011 0
Junior and senior years in college, the tag of “gamer” on me started to feel like a burden. Let the first of two yearly lists filled only with products on discs begin and see you in 2 years, Bastion. Huh? Lots of EA product here?
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Robert Jiang’s Top 10 Games of 2010 0
Ah, being 20 years old and a gamer all year long, one seems likely to pick their no.1 as the outlets they visits, though the trend only last for 2 years...Anyway, enjoy the list.
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Robert Jiang’s Top 5 Games of 2009 0
(For the 10 years of Giantbomb and my 5 years visiting it regularly.) This is my first retroactive yearly top game list with Giantbomb. Whoever is reading this might be wondering where is the list for 2008. Well, I was not actively gaming back th
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Robert Jiang’s Top 3 Games of 2017 0
2017 was a busy year for video games. 2017 was also a busy year for me, but not as a video gamer. With a failed attempt at graduate school and a new internship, I don’t manage gaming as well that year. I enjoyed what I have played of the Legend of
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Robert Chiang's Top 10 Games of the Year 2015 0
The year 2015 being quite good to me. It gave me a new laptop, PS4 and Xbox One, plus the following 3 depressing realization: 1. As a narrative media, video game still have a very very very long way to go even in 2015. 2. I might be a worse video gam
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Robert Chiang's Top 10 games of 2014 (in order of finish, except that last one) 0
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Robert Chiang's Top 10 games of the year 2013 0
My own 2013 in a nut shell: Back into PC gaming and knee deep in the indie scene, courtesy of Steam.
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Games That Make Me Happy 16
C'mon, look at that face!
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What I'm Playing 10
Playing these now!
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Wishlist 6
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This Site is Awesome, And These Pages Prove It 20
A list of pages that are either filled out really well or are so weird that it's amazing that they actually exist.
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Collection 7
A list of all the games I have ever owned.
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On My Radar 7
Games I'm keeping an eye on.
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Games I Worked On 16
Check the credits!
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Backlog 9
Games I missed and want to go back and play.
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Jeff's All-Time Favorites 95
They're not always the best games. They're just my favorite for one reason or another. This list isn't in any particular order and I'm going to go for the more obscure stuff first, since no one needs to see a list that says "OH MAN SUPER MARIO WORLD
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Obscure Fighting Games That Are Worth Some Attention 22
The mid-1990s were a pretty special time in gaming. The PlayStation was everywhere, and mod chips were becoming common. This opened me up to a world of crazy-ass import games. Since I happened to have something of a budget that I could put toward acq
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All-Time Favorites 7
Not necessarily the best, just the ones I love. In alphabetical order.
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Games I Will Accept As Your Answer to the Question "What Is The Greatest Game Ever Made?" 212
Different people with different upbringings in different eras mean that everyone's going to have a different answer to the question. For the record, when people ask me, I usually say Tetris. It's certainly not my favorite game of all-time, but if yo
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Characters I Would Recruit For My World-Class Fighting Force 36
If I needed to start a world-class force of fighters--you know, men and women who needed to be on-call at all times, ready to fight terror wherever it may rear its nefarious head--these would be the guys at the top of my list.
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Good Licensed Games 42
I should note that I mean licensed in the traditional sense of taking characters or stories from other mediums and bringing them to games. I don't mean sports games like Madden or Tony Hawk, even though both are technically licensed products.
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Pile of Shame 32
One of the (relative) downsides of covering games for a living is only having a finite amount of time to play games, and often having to play a bunch of games you'd rather not mess with. A consequence of this responsibility is lacking the time to pla
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Games I Bought Because of the Demo 2
Good thing demos exist, otherwise I would have missed out.
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Favorite Game Soundtracks 6
Music can add so much to the enjoyment of a game. Here's a few that I think nailed it.
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Bad Games That I Can't Help But Like... Or At Least Remember Somewhat Fondly 20
Or, if you want to be all technical about it, "guilty pleasures." And yeah, "bad" is probably a strong term. Some of these games are merely middling. But at some point I don't want a huge title for the list.
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Embarrassing! 18
These are the sorts of games that, if they were to come up while arguing with someone who didn't like games, you'd just have to shrug your shoulders and say "yeah, well... yeah."
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Best of 2009 5
While reviewing games certainly has its challenges, comparing two games that have next to nothing in common is actually much harder. These apples-to-oranges moments forced me to really consider things like "is a weird portable rhythm game better or w
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Games I Have Used For Cell Phone SMS/Ringtones 9
Pretty simple, really. This is a list of all of the music or game noises I've used as ringtones or as incoming SMS noises.
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Games That Should Be In Game Room 10
Here are the games I think would work terrifically with Game Room's leaderboard and challenge features.
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E3 2010 Most Anticipated Games 2
Jeff: E3 2010 Most Anticipated Games
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Games/Franchises I Would Rather See Mashed With Street Fighter 33
With all due respect to Tekken, of course.
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List of Games Beaten in 2010 0
The topic is succinct enough, any supplemental text is unnecessary. Oh, I was supposed to leave this blank if that was the case? Well, no-one tells me anything.Some stats, then, since the year seems to have passed:Total Games Completed: 67 (hence the
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State of the PS2 Backlog 8
My PS2 backlog is horrendous. I blame this partially (only partially?) on my own lack of self-control and the extremely cheap cost of pre-owned PS2 games, a library which continues to grow with the passage of time. Some of the greatest games of five
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Fun With Anagrams 43
Decided to play the Anagram Game. Popularized by the Simpsons, the Anagram Game is where you take a person's name and rearrange the letters to form a description of that person. I shall be doing it with video games. Thanks for 100 upvotes, everyone.
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Favorite Videos 2
Vinny: Favorite Videos
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Characters Better Suited For Tycho's Chair in "Poker Night at the Inventory" 5
Regardless of your opinions of Penny Arcade, Tycho just isn't a good fit: He's the only character who isn't actually a video game character (besides that brief stint in those Rain Slick games, which was mostly just a physical resemblance IIRC); He's
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10 Favoritest Genres Of All Time 5
Just to be clear: I don't use a word as classy as "favoritest" for just anything.I went with genres over games for a bit more variety. The reason it's a list of games is because they're representative.
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It Would Be Pretty Neat If These Games Got Translated Into English 6
So that I could play them and read all the words. Welcome to a list.
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Best of 2010 4
Mento: Best of 2010
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Best of 2010 1
alex: Best of 2010
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Acrostastic 11
Experiment #2: Acrostic Reviews. So these things are basically game reviews/descriptions where the letters at the start of each word spell the name of the game. I'm sure this won't be a complete failure! Cautiously optimistic exclamation point!
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List of Games Beaten in 2011 4
Hooray, a new one of these. What eclectic mix of interactive entertainment will appear on here over the coming months? Can I beat last year's total? Will anyone care? The answers to these questions and more, only on Mento's "List of Games Beaten in 2
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Most Anticipated 3DS Games! 0
Since there's apparently a sequel or port to EVERY game franchise coming out on this thing, and I need to justify buying one with its $350 European price tag, here's what I'm looking forward to seeing released on Nintendo's new bundle of extra-dimens
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An A-Z of Awesomicity 2
This is a list of a games that I think are pretty neat. Since my whole gimmick on Giant Bomb seems to be making lists that use some form of ridiculous wordplay, I've picked a great game for every letter of the alphabet. Sure, why wouldn't I do that.T
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A Z-A of... Ztuff I Haven't Played Yet 2
Hola, GB. This is like the other A-Z list, but in a different direction. I'm reversing it up because these are games I haven't played but someday want to. Either they're on the backlog already and I'm just procrastinating over them (and when you're p
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The Definitive 108 Stars of Destiny 4
You guys should probably play a Suikoden game. Or watch The Water Margin. Or, I dunno, read the book I guess. This is a list for those who have done some of the above, where I expand the central "108 dudes chosen by destiny" conceit to include Gia
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Japanese Role-Playing Games: I've Played a Few 17
A list wherein I recall all the JRPGs I've ever bothered to play to completion. I got curious. Surely I haven't wasted half my life playing these things, right? Of course not. Eep. The list isn't in any particular order. Unless I alphabetized them at
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